Coupon-delivery machine.



G. W. STAMBAUGH.

COUPON DELIVERY MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED JULY28,19-10.

Patented Nov. 22, 1910.

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APPLICATION nun JULY 23, 1910.

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G. W. STAMBAUGH.

COUPON DELIVERY MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 28,1910.

Patented Nov. 22, 1910.

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COUPON DELIVERY MACHINE.

APPLICATION IILI'ED JULY 28,1910.

Patented Nov. 22, 1910.

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GEORGE w. STAMBAUGH, or CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, AssIGNon T0 MrLLs NOVELTY COM- IPANY, or CHICAGO, ILLINoIs, A CORPORATION or ILLINOIS.

COUPON -DELIVERY MACHINE.

Application filed July 28, 1910. Serial No. 574,221'.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE W. STAM- BAUGH, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Coupon-Delivery Machines, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to an improvement in the class of machines in which normallylocked mechanism is rendered operative upon being released through the medium of an inserted coin of proper denomination to feed a continuous strip of paper orot er suitable material, representing a series of coupons or tickets, past a cutter, and to sever,

- by each operation, a coupon or ticket from the strip and deliver the same, which may tell a fortune, represent a. bank-deposit, or serve some other predetermined purpose.

, The improvement consists in the'details of construction and combinations of parts hereinafter described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 1s' a View of the machine in rear elevation, with the combined back and base of the case, to which the" latter is hinged, in open condltion; Fig-.2 is a section on line 2, Fig. 1; Fig. 3 is a broken section on line 3, Fig. 1, showing the coin-chute closing-finger-in its normal inoperative condition, and Fig. 4 is a similar view showing the same in'its chuteclosing condition; Fig. 5 is a vertical central section of the machine on line 5, Fig. 1; Fig. 6 is a section on line 6, Fig. 1, showing the coin actuated strip feeding mechanism in normal position; Fig. 7 is a similar view showing the same -in the condition of the parts at completing the feed ofa couponsection of the strip across the cutter prior to severing it; Fig. 8 is a section on line 8, Fig.

the coin-actuated strip-severing mechanism in normal position; Fig. 10 is a similar view of the same in the position of the parts they "occupy at the end of the severing operation;

F ig. 11 is a broken sectional View showing, in face elevation, the coin-released trip mechanism in normal condition at the end of the coin-chute; Fig. 12 is a similar view of the same after it has been trippedthrough the medium of an inserted coin; Fig. 13 is an enlarged broken section on line 13 Fig.

11, and Fig. 14 is a view taken at the line 14 showing the oscillatory coin-magazine; I Fig. 9 1s a section on line 9, F1g. 5, showing.

on Fig. 10, showing the pawl and ratchet I device provided on the operating shaft of the device to prevent reversal thereof.

The entire mechanism is contained in a case 15, shown of rectangular cross-section, the front and lateral walls and top andbottom heads of which are rigidly united, while the back 16 has hinged to it at one edge that of an adjacent lateral wall and rises from a base 17 on which the hin ed part of the case rides in openin and closing it, with the hinges as the axis. In the lower end of the front side of the case is formed a deliveryopening 18 at an extension 17 of the base formingaledge, and in the upper lefthand corner of that side is provided a coin-insertion slot 19, while in one side of the case, above its transverse center, is formed a shaft-bearing 20.

All of the parts of the strip-delivery and severing mechanisms are contained between two parallel vertical plates 21 and 22, joined in spaced relation near their corners by horizontal rods 24. Members of a pair of anguseries of coupons or tickets may be printed and which is provided along its longitudinal center with a line of perforations 30 uniformly spaced apart (Fig. 1). Sprin .pressed fingers 31 are pivoted between them ends to the outer sides of the inclined bars 25 to extend at their lower ends adjacent to the journals 27 for preventin accidental unseating thereof from their bearings26, while permitting the roller to be readily removed on turning the fingers 31 out of the way' of obstructing the journals.

A shaft 32, jour'naled at its ends in .the

plates 21, 22 near their centers, carries, to

aline with the series of perforations in the strip 29, 21 sprocket 33 provided with uniformly spaced peripheral" teeth 34; and on a rod 35 extending between the plates below and behind the shaft 32 is hung, in a manner to permit swinging it up and down, a rectangu ar frame 36, having shafts 37 and 38 journaled in its side-members and carrying near their centers friction-rollers 39 to bear against the strip29 where it passes over the sprocket 33 to be fed by its teeth-through the severing-device, herein- The shaft 32 carries, near. one end, a

toothed wheel 40 shown to be provided with four teeth equidistant apart. A springpressed pawl 41- engages the wheel 40 to actuate it, and tothat end is pivotally sup ported on a bent lever 42 loosely supported on the shaft 32 and with which the pawl has a spring-connection 43' for holding .it in its operative. engagement; and the lever s fulcrumed between its ends to av reciprocating arm 44 connected from its lower end, by a retracting spring 45, with a stud 46 on the plate 21, this arm containing a longitudinal slot 47 in its upper-end portion. A springpressed detent 48, pivotallysup o'rted'. on the plate 21, also engages the whee '40. The operating shaft 49 is Jourhaled in the bearing 20 on the case and in hearings in the plates 22 and2l, through which it asses, and it is embraced near its inner end y the slotted end of the arm 44 which carriesan anti-friction roller 50 engaging a cam51 on that shaft, which is provided on its end beyond the bearing 20 with a crank-handle.

On the operat ng shaft is secured to rotate a with it a cam 52 having a groove in its outer face into which projects a stud 53 on a lever 54 secured at one end ,to a rock-shaft 55 journaled in the 35; the opposite end of this lever being connected by a depending .link 56, which has a sprin -connect1on 57 with the late 22, with the ree end of a shearing lade 5,8 fulcrumed at its opposite end to thestationary angular cooperating member 59 of the stripsevering device, which extends betweenthe two plates andis surmounted by abar 60 forming a spaceunderneath it for the passage'of the advance-end of thec oupon-strip across the path of the blade and from which extends transversely a guide-shield 61 for the strip. The normal position of the blade 58 is that represented in Fig. 9, of extending inclinedly in a downward direction to exert its severlng action upwardly.

The coin-chute 62, which has a downwardly-turned ,inner end concaved at its extremity, is rigidly fastened to the outer face of the plate 21 in position to register its inlet-end with the 1nsertion-slot.19, and the outer wall of the chute is shown to be provided with a series of openings 63,'adjacent to the outermost of which is pivotally supported an angular finger 64 in a position adapting it to be turned .through that opening into the coin-path through the chute for the purpose hereinafter explained. A link-bar 65 carrying a weight 66 connects plates 21 and 22 above the rod the finger 64 with one end of a lever67, fulcrumed between its ends at 68 on the plate 21, and provided on its inner end with a seat 69 for a cylindrical coin-magazine 70, releasably fastened in place by aspring-clip 71 extending from the said plate, the magazine having a hopper 72 removably seated in its upper end. The purpose of thus supporting the magazine is to cause it, by its weight when fille'd to its capacity with coins, to overbalance the weight 66 and depress the seat-end of the lever 67, thereby raising the oppositeend thereof and with it the link 65 with the veffect of turning the stop-finger through the respective opening 63 into the path through the chute so near its, inlet-end as to prevent the insertion of another coin."

Between the discharge-end of the chute and the hopper 72 is located the coin-tripped mechanism which requires the coiiperation of an inserted coin to permit the machine to be operated.

On the end of the shaft 49 which prejects through the plate 21 is secured to rotate concentrically withthat shaft a-disk 73pmvided with a concave or chambered outer face 74, from the margin of which a stud 75 projects. A slot 76 extends from the chamber 74 through the periphery of this disk ter its reeessed slot 76 with the delivery-end of the chute, and prevents, in theabsence of a 'coin 83 (as a dime) in the slot, further turning of the disk thanwill bring the opposite shoulder of the notch against the catch, which extent of turning is only slight and insuflicient to operate the machine.

With the machine in operative condition, the plates 21 and 22 carrying the mechanism, as described, stand in upright position in the case and are rigidly fastened in place as by a strap 84bearing at its ends against the two -lower brace-rods- 24 and fastened by a thumb-screw 85 passing through its center into the lower head of the case, and a strap 86 bearing atits ends against corres ondin edges of the plates 21 and 22 and hastened by a suitably long thumb screw 87 passing centrally through it into the front wall of the case; the free end-portion of the strip '29 is passed over the wheel 33, the teeth of which engage perforations 30 in the strip, with its advance-end extending ,underthc shield 61 into the space underneath the bar 60 and the gravity-frame 36 bears against the back of the end-portion of the strip 29 on the wheel 33 and is held in that position by a spring-catch 79 extending over the rail at its free end from a stud 7 9 on the plate 22. The case is locked to the back by a padlock (not shown).

Upon inserting a coin into the slot 19,'it

rolls down the chute and drops into the recessed slot 81 in the position represented in Fig. 11. Upon then turning the shaft 32 by its handle the following described operations ensue: Resultant turning of the disk 78 causes the coin to raise the latch 80 out of the notch 81' and permit the disk to be freely rotated, resting at its periphery against the free end of the latch. Backward turning of the shaft is prevented by the pawl and ratchet d eviee SB .(Fig. 14) provided at its outer end, as shown in Figs. 9 and 10. When, in the turning of the disk, its slot 76 arrives over the hopper 72, the coin drops into the latter and lodges in the magazine; and meantime the stud 75 engages a springpressed lever 89, fulcrumed near its lower end to the plate 21 and provided near its upper end with a yoke 90 extending at its free end close to the base of the chambered central part of the disk, this engagement forcing the lever against the resistance of its controlling-spring until the coin attains its discharging position, when the stud 75 will .have cleared the upper end of the lever 89,

permitting the spring to snap the latter back and impel the yoke against the coin, in the event of its sticking, thereby to insure dislodgment thereof. While the disk is being thus turned, the cam 51 engages the roller50 to raise the arm 44 and engage the'pawl 41 with a tooth of the wheel 40, thereby turning the latter sufliciently to rotate the wheel just enough to protrude a length of the ad-' Vance-end of the strip past the blade 58, for a coupon. Thereupon the cam 51 clears the roller 50, permitting the spring 45 to retract the arm 44 to bring the pawl 41 into osition to engage the succeeding 'tooth o the wheel 40 for the next strip-feeding operation of the machine. The operations are so timed that when the advance-end of the strip has been protruded, as described, the cam 52 is brought into action, engaging the stud 53 to raise the lever 54 and link 56, thereby raising the blade 58 to sever the protruding end of the strip which falls, as a coupon or ticket, down an apron 91 leading to the delivery-outlet 18, through which the coupon alights upon the led e 17 to be taken u by the operator. The urther movement 0 the cam 52 restores the blade to its normal lowcred position, ready for the next operation of the machine, when the disk 7 3 will have arrived at its normal position of registering its notch with the catch 80 to be locked thereby.

What I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent ,is

1. In a coupon-delivering machine, the combination of a case having a delivery-outlet, a pair of upright spaced plates housed I pawl pivoted to the finger to engage said wheel, an operating shaft journaled in said plates, carrying an operating handle on its outer end'and extending at its opposite end through the slot in said arm, and a cam on the operating shaft engaging the anti-friction roller, and strip-severing mechanism supported on said plates and connected with the operating shaft to be actuated thereby succeeding the operation of the feeding mechanism, and discharging to said outlet, for the purpose set forth.

2. In a coupon-delivering machine, the combination of a case having a delivery-outlet, a pair of upright spaced plates housed in the case, a pair of inclined bars on the inner faces of said plates, a coupon-stripcarrying roller j ournaled on said bars, feeding mechanism for the strip supported on said plates to work between them and comprising a shaft, a sprocket and a toothed Wheel thereon, a roller-carrying swinging gravity-frame releasably bearing against the sprocket, a slotted spring-retracted arm carrying an anti-friction roller, a finger pivoted to said arm, a spring-pressed pawl pivoted to the finger to engage said wheel, an operating shaft carrying an operating handle on its outer end and extending at its opposite end through the slot in said arm, and a cam on the operating shaft engaging the anti-friction roller, and strip-severing mechanism supported to work between said plates and connected with the operating shaft to be actuated thereby succeeding the operation of the feeding mechanism, and discfzharging to said outlet, for the purpose set orth.

. GEORGE W. STAMBAUGH.

In presence of- J. G. ANDERSON, R. A. SOHAEFER. 

